• Attitudes Toward Debt and Debt Behavior

    Abstract: We introduce a novel survey measure of attitude toward debt. Matching our survey results with panel data on Swedish household balance sheets from registry data, we show that our debt attitude measure helps explain individual variation in indebtedness as… Read More »

  • Financial Education Works

    Summary: This podcast talks about the state of financial literacy in the United States, income inequality across communities, and the impact of financial education.

  • What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common?

    Summary: This podcast explores the idea that most problems are solved by more education — except when they’re not. Director Lusardi explains that financial education is the path forward to a more financially literate world.